Placket-closure.



No. 650,865. Patented June 5, won.

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MARIE L. PERROTTET, OF NElV YORK, N. Y.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters; Patent No. 650,865, dated June 5,1900. Application filed September 1, 1899. Serial No. 729,266. (Nomodel.)

To atZZ whom/it rnwy concern:

Be it known that I, MARIE L. PERROTTET, a citizen of the United States,residingin New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county of New York andState of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inFastening Devices for Tearing-Apparel, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to fasteningdevices for wearing-apparel, and moreparticularly to placket-closers for closing the placket-openings indresses, skirts, and similar.v articles, the object of the inventionbeing to provide an improved placket-closer simple in construction,durable in use, and efiective for the purpose for which it is designed,and which can be readily placed in position and when in position willnot be noticeable.

In thedrawings accompanying and forming part of this specification,Figure 1 is an edge View of this improved placket-closer. Fig. 2 is afront view thereof, partly open, the members being uncovered. Fig. 3 isa view of the completed device with the adjustable members covered. Fig.4 is a perspective view showing the members adjusted into a differentposition from that shown in Fig, 2; and Fig. 5 is a perspective viewsimilar to Fig. 4, showing the fastener provided with a fasteningdevice.

Similar characters of reference designate like parts in, all the figuresof the drawings.

It is well known that until the present fashion of wearing loops orcords across the placketopenings of Womens skirts such placketsfrequently became parted, owing to the fact that the hooks and eyeswhich are usually used'as a fastening means are either ineffective orare not properly connected. Moreover, it is desirable, in connectionwith the loops or cords above referred to, to have a means which willautomatically and positively maintain the placket-opening closed, sincesuch cords are usually disposed some distance apart. I am aware thatvarious devices have been furnished for this purpose, but to the best ofmy knowledge no practical and effective means has yet been provided,since those devices heretofore patented which have edgewise adjustmentonly lack practicability,

while that patented device which has a universal joint islikewiseimpracticable, since a joint having universal movement or amovement edgewise, flatwise, and vertically is necessarily an elaborateand bulkyjstructure, which, moreover, is expensive to manufacture. Ithas been found by actual experiment that when that placket fastener ofwhich I am aware, having its universal joint, was placed in position abulky and unsightly appearance was presented. The provision of thisuniversal joint was deemed necessary to permit a Vertical movement ofthe strips to prevent the puckering of the fabric at the point where thelower end of the device is attached, which puckering, however, in aproperly-constructed device will not be present, so that a verticalmovement of one strip relatively to another is not deemed necessary.

My present improvement comprises a pair of strips or members 2 and 3,formed of any suitable material, usually of resilient material. Thesestripsvare preferably of the same length, havingrounded ends andpivotally connected by a pivot 4 at their lower ends. One of thesestrips, as 2, is shown as an integral structure, while the other strip,as 3, has within the same, intermediate its ends, a joint 5,whereby saidstrip comprises a pair of members 3 and 3, one member, as 3, beingshiftable flatwise relatively to its companion member 3",and the strip 2and both of said members 3' and 3" being shiftable as a Whole edgewiserelatively to said strips. The joint 5 may be formed in any desiredmanner. In the present instance, however, each member 3 and 3 has itsend bent upon itself to form pintle-receiving knuckles, the pivot 4 inthe form shown eX- tending through two thicknesses of the member 3". Bythis construction it will be seen that the two strips are connectedtogether for edgewise or sidewise movement relatively to each other,while the flatwise movement of the same relatively to each other isobtained by forming one of said members with a hinge or jointintermediate its ends, whereby the provision of a single connectionadaptedto permit sidewise and flatwise movement, which must necessarilybe a bulky joint, is avoided. The upper ends of these strips 2 and 3 maybe connected in any suitable manner-as, for

instance, by means of an ordinary glove-fastening 6, if desired. (SeeFig. 5.) In practice, however, the device is entirely covered with somesuitable fabric 7, each member bea ing separately covered, parts of thecovering extending beyond the ends of said members and formingextensions 8, whereby a means is provided for sewing the same to eachend of the skirt-belt and for sewing the same at i the junction of theplacket-opening, and as the belt is providedwith means for attaching theends together no'additional means is necessary for securing the stripstogether. In use it will be seen that the strip may be I opened ineither one of two directionsthat f is, edgewise or flatwise-'so thatwhen the up- E per ends of the strips or the belt'ends are con- 5nec'ted the opening of the placket is prcve'n'ted, while the wearer canbend or recline withi outthe breakage of the device, owing to its iresilient nature, 7 Having described my invention, I claim-- 1. Aplacket-fastener comprising a pair of strips pivoted at the ends thereofto permit edgewise movement of said strips relatively to each other, andone of said strips comprising a two-part member jointed within the, endsthereof to permit movement of one of said parts relatively to andindependently of movement of the other strip and in a direc- 3 tiontransversely to its edgewise movement, 5 2. A placket-fastenercomprising a pair of resilient, flat, independently-formed strips of thesame length pivotally connected adjacent to their ends, so that onestrip will normally and freely lie fiatwise against the other strip fromend to end of said strips, and one of said strips comprising a pair ofhinged members to permit flatwise movement of one strip relatively tothe other strip, the construction being such that the pivoted part ofsaid jointed strip remains in permanent contact with its companion stripduring the flatwise movement of the other part of said jointed stripindependently of said companion strip, and a covering for each of 'saidstrips.

3. A placket-fastener comprising a pair of resilient, flat,independently-formed strips of the same length, one of said stripscomprising an integral structure and the other comprising a two-part"member, one part shorter than the other; a pivot connection between theshorter part of said two-part strip and said integral strip, so that onestrip will normally and freely lie flatwise against the other stripfroin'end to en'dof said strips and permit edge- 3 wise movement of thewhole of each strip relativelyt'o its companion strip; a flat leaf-hingeconnection betweenthe two parts of said twopart strip to permit flatwisemovement of the longer part'of said two-pa'rt striprelatively roar-idindependently of the integral stri'pand the shorter part or saidtwo-part strip.

4. The herein-described placket fastener 1 comprising 'a pair ofresilient strips of the samelengthhavingapivotpjrojectingthrough theends'of both of said strips, whereby they are pivotally secured directlyto each other intermediate the ends thereof for ed'gewise movement,"oneof said strips comprising an integralsti'n'cture, and the otherofsaid strips having within the same intermediate its ends a flatleaf-hinge, thiereb forming a pair of members, each ieaf of s'ai hingebein g formed by bending theend'of each strip member upon itself, andwhereby a part'of said strip is'shiftable flatwise relatively toi'ts'compai'iion strip, while the wholeof said strip is shiftableedgewise relatively to said companion strip, and a covering for eaeh'of:s'aid strips and provided with extensions at 'ea'ch'end thereof tofacilitate the attachment of the fastener in. position, substantially asdescribed.

MARIE L. PERROTTET.

Witnesses:

U. A. WEED, JOHN '0. SEIFERT.

